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About the Role

This role involves providing strategic security advisory services to key accounts, developing cybersecurity strategies, and acting as a virtual CISO. You will also be responsible for security architecture design, incident response advisory, and building strong customer relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-quarter advisory engagements for assigned strategic accounts.
• Develop cybersecurity strategy, governance frameworks, and 3-year program roadmaps.
• Conduct readiness assessments and gap analyses against major frameworks.
• Translate regulatory obligations into actionable remediation plans.
• Serve as fractional CISO for customers, representing security in board meetings and partnering with executives.
• Define target-state security architectures across various layers.
• Align architecture decisions with customer's IT modernization roadmap and KDDI America's service portfolio.
• Provide post-incident advisory, including root-cause analysis and executive communications.
• Partner with technical responders without owning operational response.
• Build trusted, multi-year relationships with senior customer stakeholders.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for strategic accounts.
• Coordinate with KAM Pre-sales, Delivery, and Customer Success teams.
• Contribute to the development of advisory methodology, intellectual property, and service offerings.
• Mentor junior consultants and pre-sales engineers.
• Bridge KDDI America and KDDI Japan operations, leveraging global resources.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in cybersecurity, information risk management, or related advisory roles.
• At least 5 years in a senior consulting, advisory, or vCISO capacity.
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-quarter advisory engagements with executive-level stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of major cybersecurity frameworks.
• Strong technical fluency across modern security architecture.
• Business-level proficiency in Japanese (reading, writing, speaking).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills at the executive level.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• At least one senior-level professional certification.

Skills

• Cybersecurity strategy
• Governance frameworks
• Program roadmaps
• NIST CSF 2.0
• CRI Profile v2.1
• NYDFS Part 500
• HIPAA
• CMMC
• ISO 27001
• SOC 2
• Virtual CISO (vCISO)
• Security architecture
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
• Network security
• SASE
• ZTNA
• Firewall
• Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
• Mobile Device Management (MDM)
• Cloud security (AWS, Azure, M365)
• Data security (DLP, DSPM, SSPM)
• Incident response
• Root-cause analysis
• Executive communication
• Regulatory notification
• Customer relationship management
• Consulting practices
• Customer engagement
• Threat intelligence
• Japanese language proficiency
• Executive-level communication
• CISSP
• CISM
• CISA
• CRISC

Location

• New York

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience
• At least 5 years in a senior consulting, advisory, or vCISO capacity

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field
• Master's degree or MBA preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $90,000 - $140,000 (depending on experience)

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Vacation, sick, and floating holidays
• 13 paid holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Wellbeing Solutions Program

About the Company

• KDDI America, headquartered in New York, is the US presence of Japan's KDDI Group, a Fortune Global 500 company and leading provider of international IT and communications services.
• Established in 1989, KDDI America evolved from a telecommunications business supporting Japanese multinationals to a company providing networks, data centers, system integration, and managed service solutions across all industries.
• KDDI America offers customizable solutions with unparalleled scalability and service.
• We provide Ethernet network uptimes of more than 99.999% between regions and guaranteed high performance.

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